CDAY vs. NTNX, PAYC, DBX, U, OKTA, TWLO, PCTY, MSTR, GWRE, and CYBR
Should you be buying Ceridian HCM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ceridian HCM include Nutanix (NTNX), Paycom Software (PAYC), Dropbox (DBX), Unity Software (U), Okta (OKTA), Twilio (TWLO), Paylocity (PCTY), MicroStrategy (MSTR), Guidewire Software (GWRE), and CyberArk Software (CYBR). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Nutanix (NASDAQ:NTNX) and Ceridian HCM (NYSE:CDAY) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.
Ceridian HCM has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Nutanix. Nutanix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ceridian HCM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nutanix currently has a consensus price target of $49.45, suggesting a potential upside of 10.51%. Ceridian HCM has a consensus price target of $79.06, suggesting a potential upside of 19.15%. Given Nutanix's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ceridian HCM is more favorable than Nutanix.
Nutanix received 345 more outperform votes than Ceridian HCM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.10% of users gave Nutanix an outperform vote while only 57.39% of users gave Ceridian HCM an outperform vote.
Nutanix has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ceridian HCM has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Nutanix had 26 more articles in the media than Ceridian HCM. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Nutanix and 11 mentions for Ceridian HCM. Nutanix's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Ceridian HCM's score of 0.67 indicating that Ceridian HCM is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ceridian HCM has a net margin of 0.28% compared to Ceridian HCM's net margin of -9.33%. Nutanix's return on equity of 2.03% beat Ceridian HCM's return on equity.
78.7% of Nutanix shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Nutanix shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Ceridian HCM shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Ceridian HCM beats Nutanix on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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